Certainly one of MMA’s longest-running promotions pays the very best prize in Brazilian MMA historical past in 2025.
On Monday, Jungle Battle introduced it would maintain two tournaments to crown “King of the Jungle” and “Queen of the Jungle,” beginning with the eight-man light-weight match that kicks off June 14 in Brasilia, Brazil. The promotion has but to disclose a date for the ladies’s flyweight grand prix.
Event winners shall be paid R$500,000 (practically $90,000 USD), the very best pay in Brazilian MMA historical past. The light-weight matchups are Carlos Alexandre da Costa vs. Lucas Campos, Marcelo Medeiros vs. Bruno Guimarães Santos, Eliwelton Travassos vs. Arcangelo Anjo, and Jorge Silva vs. Cleiton Morais.
Jungle Battle landed an enormous TV take care of Globo, the biggest community in Latin America and a former longtime accomplice of the UFC within the nation. Globo airs Jungle Battle title bouts reside on community tv, with full playing cards airing on SporTV and Combate. Figures of the deal weren’t disclosed.
“An evening the place two fighters will win R$1 million in complete,” Jungle Battle founder and president Wallid Ismail stated following an occasion Saturday. “It’s going to be unbelievable. Think about how completely happy I’m to have the ability to pay this gigantic sum of money to those warriors. They deserve it.”
Ismail’s newest occasion, Jungle Battle 136, aired Saturday evening on Globo and noticed Laura Vasconcelos cease Laura Fontoura in simply over three minutes to defend the strawweight championship in the principle occasion. Vanderlei Gonçalves unified the welterweight belts with a second-round TKO over Anderson Nascimento within the co-headliner.
